[cripplecreek]

Common Core, which emphasize deep analysis and creative problem-solving over short answers and memorization.

LOL

[Smokeyblue]

The exams were some of the first in the nation to be aligned with a more rigorous set of standards known as the Common Core,

Well, this is an easy one. Drop the standards and then give them a Nobel Peace Prize to show how enlightened and morally superior you are. Problem solved.

[goodwithagun]

I teach in Ohio and we also adopted CC. It’s crap. The 9-10 grade and 11-12 grade language arts standards contain almost no specific language. For example, one standard requires students to take part in sustained reading. Define sustained. Is it 10 minutes, one hour, half of a school day? Another favorite standard requires students to take part in sustained research, so along with sustained what is research? Surfing the Yahoo! newsfeed? Consulting primary sources? Accessing peer reviewed papers? It’s just a mess because bad teachers, and there are many, will be able to take advantage of this. Then there is the fact that the 9-10 grade standards are identical, and the 11-12 grade standards are identical. To top it off, both sets of standars’ bands are almost identical to each other!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

3...2...1...

RACISM!!!

[MacMattico]

And I’ve heard from many students that half the things on the HS Regents exams weren’t even covered by teachers. This from several different districts.

[immadashell]

I think school boards should start testing teachers to see if they can pass the test. BWAHAHAAAA.

[Myrddin]

Common Core is a crap communist indoctrination scheme. It has little to do with academic excellence. It is easier to manipulate the illiterate. Common Core increases illiteracy.

[SkyDancer]

Now if the tests were text messaged and Tweeted perhaps ....

[willywill]

i’m trying to find any reason why Elliot spritzer, Anthony weiner or Michael Bloomberg would want an educated and informed citizenry in new York.
i’m not coming up with with a reason.

[Maceman]

The number of New York students passing state reading and math exams dropped drastically this year, education officials reported on Wednesday, unsettling parents, principals and teachers and posing new challenges to a national effort to toughen academic standards. . . . The exams were some of the first in the nation to be aligned with a more rigorous set of standards known as the Common Core, which emphasize deep analysis and creative problem-solving over short answers and memorization. . . . The Common Core standards have been adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia. Although not technically national standards, they are ardently backed by the Obama administration and education officials who contend that outdated and inconsistent guidelines leave students ill prepared for college and the work force.

In 2010, Barack Obama called for fixing the public education system by giving us the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and “Race to the Top,”

which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,”

which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,”

which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by “America 2000,”

which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk,

which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter first fixed the nation’s public school system by establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.

[Dallas59]

RACISM!

[sasquatch]

Ummm,
what’s math?

[YHAOS]

I thunked pur edukasion was all Bush’s falt.

[traditional1]

They're too busy teaching "diversity", "sensitivity", "sex practices", etc. to teach Math and English.

ALL Teachers should be fired, then offered Non-Union Rehiring.....with a Merit-based performance measurement that shit-cans the crap teachers, and promotes the effective ones.

[bikerman]

maybe because their written in cursive????

[Right Wing Assault]

The left just LOVES to provide us with train wreck after train wreck.

They love sudden, major changes to everything in our lives. It totally overwhlems people and they crumble under the assault.

I think Alinsky trained them well.

[Signalman]

Common core reminds me of “the new math” craze in the 70s. A waste.

[Monty22002]

Let them try even community college level linear algebra. Boy that was a pain.

Have fun!

[Trailerpark Badass]

After the Atlanta Public schools cheating scandal, they probably aren’t as eager to change test scores.

[Artie]

Obviously, these schools are underfunded.